[platform-swt-dev] Re: Mac port: Status Update

["Stu Charlton" <stuartc@xxxxxxx>]

Why not try a JNI -> Cocoa/ObjC bridge?  There shouldn't really be any
technical problems that I can think of, if the library maintains that
one-to-one.   Certainly it means doing what is effectively a new Java
bridge, but we'd have to do that with Carbon anyway.   And it's different
than the traditional OS.java procedural API approach, but that may not be a
bad thing.

 I just think (and I think you'll agree) that Cocoa would be more exciting
to work with when porting *all* those widgets. :-)

Cheers
Stu



---------Original Message ----------------
From: Maurice Parker <maurice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2001 08:23:05 -0600
User-agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.0.0.1309

Hey,

I didn't have any luck finding out what the problem with using Cocoa's
Notification Center from Java was.  At this point I am assuming it is a bug
in the JavaBridge most likely attributed to the use of NSSelector (a
reflection like mechanism).

I know how to work around this bug, but I'm not really sure that I should
try at this point.  I've posted to the cocoa-dev list twice reporting
problems with using the JavaBridge and haven't yet received a reply back
from an Apple employee.  Once I even cc'd an Apple employee who directly
involved in a thread on the JavaBridge and I still didn't receive back a
response.